 Founded in 1939, Preservation North Carolina proves how a deep commitment to property work, advocacy, diversity, and leadership leads to excellence in historic preservation. Preservation North Carolina is the state's only private non-profit statewide historic preservation organization. Through its nationally recognized Endangered Properties Program, which acquires threatened sites and then finds willing buyers to rehabilitate them, PNC has saved or protected more than 725 properties in 75 counties, as well as 4,000 acres of open space. Many of these community landmarks have now been put to a variety of new uses. In one instance, PNC worked as a non-profit developer to save two historic textile mill villages, keeping more than 100 structures from demolition. Among other successes, PNC owns and operates the Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts. It is also an advocate for the Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit, which increases investment in the state's historic neighborhoods. Indeed, the organization's ability to solve preservation problems creatively has helped it survive and thrive for the past 75 years, and will allow it to move forward as one of the nation's strongest preservation organizations.